WhatsApp calls are arriving on the Samsung Galaxy Watch with Wear OS, although it’s only “beta” now.
if you want to Smartwatches with Wear OS sure the Samsung Galaxy Watch options are the best today, especially since in the absence of a Pixel watch to wait for it seems to be the South Korean watches Serve as device developer to test improvements and new features in front of anyone.
The next improvement will not come from Google plus anyway, like our colleagues from SamMobile follow the footsteps of the forums Redditseems to be WhatsApp is in the process of bringing VoIP calling to Samsung’s Galaxy Watch vía its platformor at least that’s what some users of the versions say beta vía WhatsApp.
And that, judging by the catches shown and the data shown, is that execution beta WhatsApp number 2.22.19.11 already includes the possibility Answer and make voice calls vía WhatsApp on the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch5.
In any case, you should not run the WhatsApp aplicación directly on your Wear OS 3 watch, because This option is included in the WhatsApp application for the connected teléfonos inteligentes no native version of WhatsApp for smartwatches available yet.
It’s still in beta testing, and of course, the WhatsApp aplicación for smartwatches isn’t expected to launch any time soon, although very soon you’ll be able to answer WhatsApp calls on Wear OS smartwatches as well.
The range of functions seems to be the same regardless of the Galaxy Watch model used Answer calls coming within the WhatsApp platform directly from the watch just like any other call over habitual cellular networks.
However, as you will see The call screens displayed by the Galaxy Watch4 are different from those displayed by the Galaxy Watch5Displaying the same call screen of the estándar interfaz for the latter and the caller’s picture if it is in our contacts gallery and The Galaxy Watch4 presents a new image with a black backgroundCaller details and logotipo of the application originating the notification.
This is how WhatsApp calls appear on the Galaxy Watch4 (left) and Watch5 (right).
We don’t know if this change is due to the fact that we’re still dealing with imperfect features, and it’s clear that this is the case the new one with the WhatsApp logotipo seems more logical It’s too early to say which screen will definitely be used to detect calls from one service or another on watches running Wear OS.
It seems clear that the developers want misión Extend the functionality of WhatsApp to smartwatchesand although no native aplicación expected anytime soon The good thing is that we cánido answer calls from our watches the same way we perro answer calls from mobile networks.
Now wait for this novel to be included in stable versions of WhatsApp! We already know that it will take a little longer…